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In 2018, O'Ree was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, and starting that year the NHL has introduced the annual Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award in his honor. Early life and career William Eldon O'Ree [ 1 ] was born on October 15, 1935, in Fredericton , New Brunswick, [ 2 ] to Harry, [ 3 ] a civil engineer and road maintenance worker, [ 2 ...
On Jan. 19, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill awarding O'Ree a Congressional Medal of Honor. A day earlier, the Boston Bruins retired Willie O'Ree's little-known journey to ...
When O'Ree first entered the league as the first ice hockey player of African descent, he received no recognition from the league or the media. The media did not publish any articles that the color line in ice hockey had been broken. Some newspapers who reported about the first game O'Ree played confused O'Ree's first name Willie, as Billy. O ...
The Lester Patrick Trophy has been presented by the National Hockey League and USA Hockey since 1966 to honor a recipient's contribution to ice hockey in the United States.It is considered a non-NHL trophy because it may be awarded to players, coaches, officials, and other personnel outside the NHL.
ESPN has iced a deal for Willie, a documentary film about the remarkable life of the National Hockey League's first black player. ESPN2 will have the TV premiere of the pic about Willie O'Ree on ...
O'Ree's moment came 11 years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier and it would take another 16 years after he stepped onto the ice at the Montreal Forum before another black player ...
Jan. 19—(Editor's note: Willie O'Ree had his number retired last night by the Bruins. O'Ree was in Methuen three years ago signing autographs and our Bill Burt caught up with O'Ree talking about ...
"Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player" – Willie O'Ree; Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry "Vegetable Kingdom" – Bryant Terry "Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Space" – Valerie Harrison "Living Lively" – Haile Thomas